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'Slap in the Face': Newton Paints over Italian Flag Traffic Stripes Weeks Before Annual Festival

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JUL 9 – More than 2,000 residents signed a petition urging restoration of Italian flag street stripes removed for safety despite their 90-year cultural significance.

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The mayor said the tricolor center line was repainted yellow for traffic safety, but festival volunteers can paint it a foot or so over.

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'Slap in the face': Newton paints over Italian flag traffic stripes weeks before annual festival

The mayor said the tricolor center line was repainted yellow for traffic safety, but festival volunteers can paint it a foot or so over.

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Newton mayor faces pressure to repaint Italian flag traffic stripes on Nonantum parade route before festival - The Boston Globe

For the historically Italian enclave, the removal of the tri-colored stripes — representing the flag of Italy — has been a gut punch.

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